. Annual report. New York State Museum; Science; Science. 172 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM Jersey, on Rancocas creek near Masonville. Here banner stones were actually found in caches associated with the lowest stratum in which artifacts were present. Implements Suggesting the Banner Stone In connection with our studies of the banner stone as a whorl we have examined the drill spindles of various races in several of the larger museums. We find that the headpiece of a drill spindle employed by the Eskimo, for example, resembles in certain ways the knobbed or blunt ended banner stone of the horned type.


. Annual report. New York State Museum; Science; Science. 172 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM Jersey, on Rancocas creek near Masonville. Here banner stones were actually found in caches associated with the lowest stratum in which artifacts were present. Implements Suggesting the Banner Stone In connection with our studies of the banner stone as a whorl we have examined the drill spindles of various races in several of the larger museums. We find that the headpiece of a drill spindle employed by the Eskimo, for example, resembles in certain ways the knobbed or blunt ended banner stone of the horned type. The headpieces are rather more neatly made than the remaining por- tion of the drill among the Eskimo. The Eskimo top pieces are. Fig. 3. Boring set used by the Point Barrow Eskimo. From Report National Museum, 1888, Hough. The top or mouthpiece resembles one form of the banner stone. 1 A pre-Lenape site in New Jersey, vania University Museum, vol. 6, no. Anthropological Publications, Pennsyl-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original New York State Museum. Albany : University of the State of New York


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